Mike Jackson

Neither ‘Mad Dog’ nor ‘Warrior Monk’, General Jim Mattis is a thoughtful strategist

His autobiography is also a treatise on leadership, as well as an exposé of Washington’s muddled objectives in recent years

issue 21 December 2019
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  • Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

    Jim Mattis and Bing West

    Random House, pp. 300, £19

General Jim Mattis ended his remarkable career as a four-star US marine general, and finally as US secretary of defense. His book Call Sign Chaos is co-authored with Bing West, also an ex-marine and one-time assistant secretary of defense. It is partly an autobiography and partly a treatise on leadership.

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